South American leaders voiced anger last night after the President of Bolivia
was treated like a fugitive after rumours that his personal jet was carrying
the whistleblower Edward Snowden into asylum.

Evo Morales’s flight back to La Paz from a Moscow conference took a day longer
than anticipated when Portugal, France, Italy and Spain refused permission
for his jet to fly through their airspace and he was forced to make an
unscheduled overnight stop in Vienna.

Mr Morales was eventually able to leave Austria after his plane was searched,
and his presidential plane eventually arrived home in Bolivia’s capital at